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Katie Schneider; Amy Martin; Terri S. Hogue

Advances in Engineering Education SUMMER 2020 VOLUME 8 ISSUE 2Evaluation of an NSF Research Experience for Teachers(RET) Program for STEM Development: Water-EnergyEducation for the Next Generation (WE2NG)KATIE SCHNEIDERAMY MARTINANDTERRI S. HOGUEColorado School of MinesGolden, CO ABSTRACT In recent decades much attention has been given to the optimization of professional develop-ment to support education reform; especially as it relates to science, engineering, technology andmathematics (STEM) fields. Many studies have shown that the most effective STEM professionaldevelopment programs include active inquiry opportunities that take place over long

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Smitesh Bakrania

for water similar to the treat-ment of ideal gases. In lieu of a simple mathematical relationship between the thermodynamic properties of water,property charts serve an important purpose by allowing students to visualize processes and cycles.Engineering students are already encouraged to sketch their cycles on temperature-entropy (T-s)charts and to study various modifications of the Rankine Cycle. Such property chart sketches areuseful for highlighting how most ideal engineering processes follow constant property lines suchas isobars and isotherms. However, without connecting these sketches to the property values,students fail to recognize the interdependence of thermodynamic properties. Rather than relyingon supplementary function of the

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Mansour Karkoub; Chun-Lin Yang; Wael Karkoub; Moutafa Raslan

report reflecting on the shortcomings of the lumped mass method and suggest ways to improve the accuracy of the models developed using this technique; (AT-2) Prepare a short presentation to discuss the speed time response of the car using the lumped mass method and provide extrapolated alternatives to improve the accuracy of the response, etc. 3.Develop rubric(s) to evaluate the assessment tasks (ATs) and the level of attainment of the ILOs with emphasis on deep learning criteria using the SOLO technique. 4.Supervisors of the UCCRP must observe that, as the student progresses in the project, his/her learning outcomes display deeper understanding of “modeling of dynamic systems” or con- cept “lumped mass technique

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David Reeping; Lisa McNair

report reflecting on the shortcomings of the lumped mass method and suggest ways to improve the accuracy of the models developed using this technique; (AT-2) Prepare a short presentation to discuss the speed time response of the car using the lumped mass method and provide extrapolated alternatives to improve the accuracy of the response, etc. 3.Develop rubric(s) to evaluate the assessment tasks (ATs) and the level of attainment of the ILOs with emphasis on deep learning criteria using the SOLO technique. 4.Supervisors of the UCCRP must observe that, as the student progresses in the project, his/her learning outcomes display deeper understanding of “modeling of dynamic systems” or con- cept “lumped mass technique

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Jianchu Yao

preparation, simulation-based real-worldprojects like this not only effectively facilitate student learning and make the intricate frequencymethods easier to understand, they also boost student perception on their areas of study (and pos-sibly their future career) due to the positive experience and enhanced understanding of relevance. REFERENCES 1. N. S. Nise. Control Systems Engineering, 6th Edition, Wiley Publisher. ISBN: 978-0-470-54756-4. 2. R. M. Felder, G. N. Felder, & E. J. Dietz. “A longitudinal study of engineering student performance and retention V.Comparisons with traditionally-taught students.” Journal of Engineering Education, 87(4), 469–480. 3. J. Mills and D. Treagust

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Martha Liliana Torres-Barreto; Ginna Paola Castro Castaño; Mileidy Alvarez Melgarejo

development goals Plan (UN, 2018), The Santander(Colombia) Development Action Plan (Plan de Desarrollo Departamental 2016) and the Future ofJobs (World Economic Forum 2016). Also, various interviews with: government advisors, regionalentrepreneurs, and the Executive Director of the Cluster of Information Technology Industries ofSantander – Colombia, were considered as a reference in order to identify the challenge´s subject.Main findings related to work with experts is shown in Table 2. Interviews were held on a semi-struc-tured basis, and they lasted 1 hour on average. The questions included: (a) In the current context,what is your opinion regarding the competences of young engineers? Do they match the marketneeds? (b) As things are now, do you

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Jenna L. Mueller; Mary Elizabeth Dotson; Jennifer Dietzel; Jenna Peters; Gabriela Asturias; Amelia Cheatham; Marlee Krieger; Baishakhi Taylor; Sherryl Broverman; Nirmala Ramanujam

Goals Table 1. Summary of themes, number of students out of 10 total students who mentioned each theme, and representative quotations from semi-structured interviews with students upon completion of BME 290. Students who Theme mentioned theme Representative Quotation(s) Develop the skills 70% (n = 7) “I always talk about how it is a real-life situation. We spoke to a doctor who needed to collaborate actually does need this product and how this experience augmented my with a community education and showed me how my education is useful in a real-world setting.” partner

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Sarah Dart; Edmund Pickering; Les Dawes

what they showed to solve revision questions.”This is consistent with Hattie and Donoghue (2016)’s model of learning where learning strategies canvary between students, and their effectiveness can change as students move through the surface, deepand transfer phases. Thus these results imply that WEVs can serve as a launching pad for further study,leading to deeper learning, critical thinking and knowledge transfer (Hattie and Donoghue 2016). Thisbehavior could be further encouraged by recommending additional practice problems related to eachworked example, which was in fact proposed by some students when asked how the WEV conceptcould be improved. These findings support WEVs as a means of encouraging active learning. Finally, it is important

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A.Ravishankar Rao

students from the Fall 2016 andSpring 2017 semesters and correlated with the Week 8 cumulative score. RESULTSResults from the Cinematic Meditation Exercise We computed the mean Week 8 cumulative score for the following categories of students:(a) those who submitted the essay for the cinematic meditation assignment, denoted by S andSUMMER 2020 VOLUME 8 ISSUE 2 13 ADVANCES IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION Interventions for Promoting Student Engagement and Predicting Performance in an Introductory Engineering Class Figure 7

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Jung-Hoon Sul; Zhongxiao Peng; Nicole Kessissoglou

://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2018.02.009 Chen, L., Chen, T.-L. & Chen, N.-S. (2015). Students’ perspectives of using cooperative learning in a flipped statisticsclassroom. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology 31 (6):621–40. https://doi.org/10.14742/ajet.1876 Chen, W. & Looi, C.-K. (2007). Incorporating online discussion in face to face classroom learning: A new blendedlearning approach. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology 23 (3):307–26. https://doi.org/10.14742/ajet.1255 Choy, J. L. F. & Quek, C. L. (2016). Modelling relationships between students’ academic achievement and communityof inquiry in an online learning environment for a blended course. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology 32(4):106–24

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Suzan Alaswad; Sinan Salman

entire demanded quantity or withholdpart of the shipment to optimize truck utilizations. Obviously, over-shipping is not permitted in theHARD game. For example, a player may find that the week’s customers’ demand is 230 items. Onone hand, the player may choose to ship the entire quantity utilizing two trucks with a capacity of200 items per truck, costing a total of $440 for transportation. On the other hand, the player canship a full truck load and withhold the remaining 30 items, hoping there will be underutilized spacein the following week’s truck(s). Consequently, if such space exists in the following week, the costin the second scenario will then consist of the current week’s truck cost ($220), a cost of holdingthe remaining inventory for an